--- title: "Court order and judgment API India: PDF, AI summary" url: https://jurisgrid.com/solutions/court-order-judgment-api/ reviewed: 2026-11-13 type: solution sector: court-data --- # Court order and judgment API: certified PDFs, markdown text and AI summaries A court order API fetches the order or judgment document for a case, with the text extracted so it can be searched, summarised or filed, for law firms, lenders and AI products. Reviewed: 13 Nov 2026 ## Short answer eCourtsIndia serves orders and judgments three ways: a certified true copy PDF (INR 3.75), extracted text with an AI summary, outcome and provisions cited (INR 7.50), and markdown text with the PDF (INR 5.25), all per call on pay as you go with INR 200 free credit. Kanoon.dev, Indian Kanoon and Vakeel360 also provide orders. ## Which API does it? **eCourtsIndia Order APIs** (JurisGrid score 92 of 100). Price: INR 3.75 per PDF, INR 5.25 per markdown and PDF, INR 7.50 per AI summary on pay as you go; INR 200 free credit. INR 200 free credit on signup, no card needed. - `GET https://webapi.ecourtsindia.com/api/partner/case/{cnr}/order/{filename}`: Order as a watermarked, signed certified true copy PDF, INR 3.75 - `GET https://webapi.ecourtsindia.com/api/partner/case/{cnr}/order-ai/{filename}`: Extracted text plus AI analysis, INR 7.50 - `GET https://webapi.ecourtsindia.com/api/partner/case/{cnr}/order-md/{filename}`: Markdown text plus the PDF, INR 5.25 - MCP: https://mcp.ecourtsindia.com/mcp - Docs: https://ecourtsindia.com/api/docs?ref=jurisgrid ```bash curl -s "https://webapi.ecourtsindia.com/api/partner/case/DLHC010001232024/order-ai/order-1.pdf" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $ECOURTSINDIA_API_KEY" ``` ## What does it return? - Extracted order text - AI analysis: summary, key points, outcome and relief granted - Legal provisions cited in the order - Case identifiers, court, bench and judge names, and order date - Parties and their counsel as read from the order ## Who else sells a Court order and judgment download API in India? | Provider | What they sell | Score | API | MCP | Price | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | [eCourtsIndia](https://jurisgrid.com/providers/ecourtsindia/index.md) | eCourtsIndia Order APIs | 92 | Public REST API | Public MCP server | INR 3.75 per PDF, INR 5.25 per markdown and PDF, INR 7.50 per AI summary on pay as you go; INR 200 free credit | | [IndianKanoon](https://jurisgrid.com/providers/indiankanoon/index.md) | Search and document retrieval API over court judgments | 55 | Public REST API | Not published | INR 0.50 per search, INR 0.20 per document | | [kanoon.dev](https://jurisgrid.com/providers/kanoon-dev/index.md) | Search, document metadata and page text for Indian court orders in a limited pilot | 53 | Public REST API | Not published | Free pilot | | [Surepass](https://jurisgrid.com/providers/surepass/index.md) | CNR search API returning interim orders and final orders and judgments | 36 | Public REST API | Not published | Not published | | [Vakeel360](https://jurisgrid.com/providers/vakeel360/index.md) | Order search for recent High Court orders by case number or advocate | 27 | Public REST API | Not published | Fixed monthly plans, quote on request | ## Good for - Law firms that need a certified copy attached to a filing - Lenders and insurers reading the outcome of a dispute - Legal AI products that need clean order text - Research teams summarising orders at scale ## Limits - You first call Case Detail to get the order file name from judgmentOrders or interimOrders - The AI summary is generated on first access and can take 10 to 60 seconds; markdown conversion can take longer - AI analysis is machine generated, so read the order before relying on it ## Frequently asked questions ### How do I download a court order through an API? Call Case Detail for the CNR, read orderUrl from judgmentOrders or interimOrders, then call the order endpoint with that file name. You get a certified true copy PDF by default, or the raw court PDF with signed=false. ### How much does an order download cost? INR 3.75 for the PDF, INR 5.25 for markdown plus PDF and INR 7.50 for the AI summary on pay as you go. Enterprise plans bill at a third of that. Full order text is also in Case Detail under files, markdownContent. ### Does it summarise orders? Yes. The order-ai endpoint returns an AI summary, key points, outcome, relief granted and the provisions cited, generated on first access and cached afterwards. ### Can an AI agent call this API? Yes. eCourtsIndia runs an MCP server at https://mcp.ecourtsindia.com/mcp, so assistants such as Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor can use the same data after signing in at eCourts. 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